5 Reasons Being Yourself Is The Best Way To Find Love

Many people have a hard time believing that being yourself is the best way to succeed at finding love. But I assure you, being yourself is the key to finding lasting happiness in a relationship.

Why they think, would someone want to fall in love with them? They don’t think themselves smart enough or hot enough or funny enough. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would ever want them. So, they create for themselves someone else, someone else they believe will be more lovable, and they put that person out there – hoping to find love.

Unfortunately, not being yourself is definitely not the best way to succeed at finding love because it will sabotage you in so many ways. Let me share with you 5 reasons why not being yourself will ensure that you fail at finding love.

Related: 12 Signs You Are Losing Yourself In Your Relationship

5 Reasons Being Yourself Is The Best Way To Find Love

1. Being Yourself Is Natural.

Being yourself is the easiest thing in the world to do. You have been yourself for decades, and you can do you like no one else can.

Not being yourself takes work. Not being yourself, presenting yourself as someone else, making conscious decisions to do things differently, all require a tremendous amount of energy. It takes keeping on top of the lies that you might be telling. It takes maintaining a façade of who you are not. It takes hiding things from your new person, all the while doing the very difficult task of trying to find love.

And, if you are working so hard at being someone other than you are, you will have a hard time finding the love you seek because it’s hard to do both at the same time.

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2. You Will Doom The Relationship From The Start.

Even if you find love by not being yourself, you won’t be able to keep it.

Imagine you meet someone and they are everything that you had hoped they would be. You fall in love and you look forward to living happily ever after. And then you learn the truth about them. How would you feel?

I have a client who met a wonderful guy and they had a summer romance. He made her laugh, and the sex was great, and she had hopes for the future. As their time together progressed, she noticed that he didn’t seem to have much professional work to do. He spent his time working on his boat and with her, but he never talked about what he did, and he definitely didn’t have money for dinners out.

She repeatedly asked him about this because she wasn’t comfortable with him not working and her having to pay for dinners. He was vague and put her off. Eventually, she got fed up with the whole thing and pulled the plug. He wasn’t the person she thought he was and she moved on.

So, while you might find love by not being yourself, you won’t be able to keep it!

3. Honesty Is The Key To Any Relationship.

One of the most important parts of any relationship is honesty – without it, there is no trust, and a relationship will fail. If you start a relationship off not being yourself, you will be violating the trust of your partner by not being honest.

In the case of my client, she felt like her boyfriend had done a bait and switch – that he had sucked her in presenting himself as a successful businessman, when in fact, he did what he had to do to pay his bills but that was it.

She does love this man and he has promised her that he will find more work, but their relationship has been tarnished because she no longer trusts him the way that she would like to.

So, the best way to succeed at finding love is by being yourself because honesty is the basis of every healthy relationship, and that’s what you want – a healthy relationship.

Related: How Happy and Healthy Is Your Relationship? Quiz

4. You Will Feel Better About Yourself.

To deem that who you are is not good enough to be loved, and you must therefore be someone else, sucks the life out of you. It’s very hard to put yourself out there as someone who you are not and to feel good about yourself.

How can you, if you are pretending to be someone you are not, feel good about yourself? How can you look yourself in the mirror and not judge yourself? How can you not walk in after a date and wonder how you are going to keep this up? How will you feel if your person falls in love with someone who doesn’t exist?

And how can you be attracted to someone who doesn’t feel good about themselves? If your self-esteem is low because you aren’t being yourself, you are going to have a hard time attracting the kind of person you want to be with. Being yourself in a relationship is the best way to keep your self-esteem intact and be attractive to the kind of person you want to be attractive to.

5. You Will Keep Your Friends.

This might seem like an odd one, but one of the biggest consequences of not being yourself is that you might lose your friends.

How many times have you, or one of your friends, changed to get or keep a relationship? How frustrating is it to watch them be someone other than who they are, for some girl or some guy? How quickly do you get sick of it and stop hanging out with them and respecting them?

If you want to keep your friends, I would encourage you to be yourself when you are looking for love. You need those friends. They were there before you meet your person and they will be there long after if the relationship ends.

I know that it’s hard for some people to believe that being yourself is the best way to succeed at finding love.

Related: 21 Things That Change When You Start Respecting Yourself

But being yourself is the best way to find happiness, not only in a relationship but in the world. Being yourself is natural and you are good at it. You will doom the relationship from the start if it’s based on a lie. You can’t have a healthy relationship without honesty. Your self-esteem will plummet, and you won’t be as attractive to others, and you could lose your friends in the whole messy process.

Be yourself. Always. You will be glad you did!


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Mitzi Bockmann

I am a NYC based Certified Life Coach and mental health advocate. My writing has been published on The Huffington Post, Prevention, Psych Central, Pop Sugar, MSN and The Good Man Project, among others. I work with all kinds of people to help them go from depressed and overwhelmed to confident and happy in their relationships and in their world.

Disclaimer: The informational content on The Minds Journal have been created and reviewed by qualified mental health professionals. They are intended solely for educational and self-awareness purposes and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you are experiencing emotional distress or have concerns about your mental health, please seek help from a licensed mental health professional or healthcare provider.

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Many people have a hard time believing that being yourself is the best way to succeed at finding love. But I assure you, being yourself is the key to finding lasting happiness in a relationship.

Why they think, would someone want to fall in love with them? They don’t think themselves smart enough or hot enough or funny enough. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would ever want them. So, they create for themselves someone else, someone else they believe will be more lovable, and they put that person out there – hoping to find love.

Unfortunately, not being yourself is definitely not the best way to succeed at finding love because it will sabotage you in so many ways. Let me share with you 5 reasons why not being yourself will ensure that you fail at finding love.

Related: 12 Signs You Are Losing Yourself In Your Relationship

5 Reasons Being Yourself Is The Best Way To Find Love

1. Being Yourself Is Natural.

Being yourself is the easiest thing in the world to do. You have been yourself for decades, and you can do you like no one else can.

Not being yourself takes work. Not being yourself, presenting yourself as someone else, making conscious decisions to do things differently, all require a tremendous amount of energy. It takes keeping on top of the lies that you might be telling. It takes maintaining a façade of who you are not. It takes hiding things from your new person, all the while doing the very difficult task of trying to find love.

And, if you are working so hard at being someone other than you are, you will have a hard time finding the love you seek because it’s hard to do both at the same time.

finding love

2. You Will Doom The Relationship From The Start.

Even if you find love by not being yourself, you won’t be able to keep it.

Imagine you meet someone and they are everything that you had hoped they would be. You fall in love and you look forward to living happily ever after. And then you learn the truth about them. How would you feel?

I have a client who met a wonderful guy and they had a summer romance. He made her laugh, and the sex was great, and she had hopes for the future. As their time together progressed, she noticed that he didn’t seem to have much professional work to do. He spent his time working on his boat and with her, but he never talked about what he did, and he definitely didn’t have money for dinners out.

She repeatedly asked him about this because she wasn’t comfortable with him not working and her having to pay for dinners. He was vague and put her off. Eventually, she got fed up with the whole thing and pulled the plug. He wasn’t the person she thought he was and she moved on.

So, while you might find love by not being yourself, you won’t be able to keep it!

3. Honesty Is The Key To Any Relationship.

One of the most important parts of any relationship is honesty – without it, there is no trust, and a relationship will fail. If you start a relationship off not being yourself, you will be violating the trust of your partner by not being honest.

In the case of my client, she felt like her boyfriend had done a bait and switch – that he had sucked her in presenting himself as a successful businessman, when in fact, he did what he had to do to pay his bills but that was it.

She does love this man and he has promised her that he will find more work, but their relationship has been tarnished because she no longer trusts him the way that she would like to.

So, the best way to succeed at finding love is by being yourself because honesty is the basis of every healthy relationship, and that’s what you want – a healthy relationship.

Related: How Happy and Healthy Is Your Relationship? Quiz

4. You Will Feel Better About Yourself.

To deem that who you are is not good enough to be loved, and you must therefore be someone else, sucks the life out of you. It’s very hard to put yourself out there as someone who you are not and to feel good about yourself.

How can you, if you are pretending to be someone you are not, feel good about yourself? How can you look yourself in the mirror and not judge yourself? How can you not walk in after a date and wonder how you are going to keep this up? How will you feel if your person falls in love with someone who doesn’t exist?

And how can you be attracted to someone who doesn’t feel good about themselves? If your self-esteem is low because you aren’t being yourself, you are going to have a hard time attracting the kind of person you want to be with. Being yourself in a relationship is the best way to keep your self-esteem intact and be attractive to the kind of person you want to be attractive to.

5. You Will Keep Your Friends.

This might seem like an odd one, but one of the biggest consequences of not being yourself is that you might lose your friends.

How many times have you, or one of your friends, changed to get or keep a relationship? How frustrating is it to watch them be someone other than who they are, for some girl or some guy? How quickly do you get sick of it and stop hanging out with them and respecting them?

If you want to keep your friends, I would encourage you to be yourself when you are looking for love. You need those friends. They were there before you meet your person and they will be there long after if the relationship ends.

I know that it’s hard for some people to believe that being yourself is the best way to succeed at finding love.

Related: 21 Things That Change When You Start Respecting Yourself

But being yourself is the best way to find happiness, not only in a relationship but in the world. Being yourself is natural and you are good at it. You will doom the relationship from the start if it’s based on a lie. You can’t have a healthy relationship without honesty. Your self-esteem will plummet, and you won’t be as attractive to others, and you could lose your friends in the whole messy process.

Be yourself. Always. You will be glad you did!


Being Yourself Best Way Succeed Finding Love Pin

Published On:

Last updated on:

Mitzi Bockmann

I am a NYC based Certified Life Coach and mental health advocate. My writing has been published on The Huffington Post, Prevention, Psych Central, Pop Sugar, MSN and The Good Man Project, among others. I work with all kinds of people to help them go from depressed and overwhelmed to confident and happy in their relationships and in their world.

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